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ENGINEERS' BALL THE CAROLINA INN TONIGHT - 9:00 O'CLOCK ENGINEERS' BALL THE CAROLINA INN TONIGHT - 9:00 O'CLOCK 0 JTf VOLUME NIGHT SESSIONS OF LOCAL COURT IN 0LDPICKWICR Manager Carolina Theatr Per mits Village To Use Build ing For Court Room. (By John PatriQ) Visitors to the night sessions of Chapel Hill's recorder court, now being held in the old Pick wick theatre building,' recall days of yore when order and dignity were not so well main tained as now. It was the custom, to attend the old Pickwick carrying a bag of peanuts (sold in a stand nearby), which were cracked and eaten during the performance with much gusto and noise. Smoking, though against the rules, was winked at, and- often the air became so thick that the picture1 was dimmed almost be yond recognition. Upon open ins the doors, passers-by on Franklin street sometimes thought the place to be afire. Choice seats in the old Pick wick were at the rear, from where missiles in various shapes could be thrown upon those in front without any danger of reciprocity. The audience often sang raucously to the accom paniment of organ music fur nished by the management. Women were infrequent visitors, particularly women who did not care to hear volleys of obscene language and suggestive com ments during the exhibition of a picture. Crowds now attending ses sions of the recorder's court are often as large as those of bygone days, but the difference in the behavior of the audience" is pro found. The ticket-seller's booth is empty, dusty, and through many a stirring drama of rea life new audiences sit in peace and nuiet. Undue noise and mirth are met with prompt ac tion by the court officials. Ne orrva are allowed even wel comed on one side of the house; for both the prosecutor and the judge believe . that the colored folk should know exactly what happens when negroes go astray The city of Chapel Hill was given the use of the theatre for a courtroom, without rental when manager E. Carrington Smith of the Carolina theatre; whose company pays rent on the building, learned that the old court room on the second floor of the city hall was pitifully in adequate in size, was in danger of collapsing , under the great weight it sometimes held, and, moreover, was not in keeping with the dignity of judicial pro cedure. Smith, upon learning that the building of a new courtroom was contemplated, believed that taxes in the village were high enough, and pointed out that his company had always welcomed the use of the Pickwick with out charge for public gatherings, speeches and the like. Both Smith and Judge Hinshaw are of the f opinion that a knowledge of court procedure is a part of a modern college education, and this opinion is being borne out by the increasing numbers of students who are attending the sessions. Yackety Yack Notice Senior superlative pictures will be accepted until Tues day of next week. Only ten have been turned in to date. Yackety Yack Editor MAKE SURVEY FOR NEGRO HOSPITALS Dr. H. L. Harris of ' Chicago. who is connected with the med ical department of the Rosen wald Fund, and Lt. Lawrence A. Uxley, director of the division of negro work in the North Caro- ma state board of charities and public welfare, visited the Uni versity yesterday to confer with members of the department of sociology. The Chicago physician is mak ing an extended tour of North and South Carolina, accom panied by Lt. Oxley, in order to survev far.il iff PS in Tnn v vAtr All iiic trVU states for the establishment of negro hospitals, to be finished either wholly or in part by money tfrom the Rosenwald Fund. 1 From here they are going to Durham and from there they in tend to proceed to other towns m tne eastern section of the state. CHASE GOES TO HEAD BIG PLANT University Of Illinois Has Prop erty Valued At $23,641,383; Enrollment Above 14,000. Urbana-Champaign, 111., Feb. 27. (Special) What kind of an institution is the University oi Illinois to whinh Harry Woodburn Chase of the University of North Carolina will go as chief executive during the summer? ' How old is it? and how large? What does the state of Illinois spend annually on its support? To quote a recent writer, "the University of Illinois is a vast laboratory of science and citi zenship built by and for the peo ple of Illinois. It is primarily that, and last year it spent more than seven and a quarter mil lions of dollars on the children of the people of Illinois and on research and investigational work." Sixty-two years ago this school was known as the Illinois industrial u niversity, opening with an enrollment of 50 stu dents, and with a faculty of three. Today the University of Illi nois has a net enrollment of the year of more than 14,000 resi dent students, approximately 1200 teachers, a thousand clerks, stenographers, and laborers, "and more world contacts grow ing out of the solution of prac tical problems of existence than any other school in this country. It is known throughout the world for its discoveries." The net worth of the institu tion, in lands and buildings, as based on the original costs of the buildings, is $23,641,383. All of the above has come from state funds with the exception of ap proximately two and a half millions which have been ac quired from funds representing gifts. . Since its ' establishment, the University of Illinois has grad uated more than 32,000 students and is continuing this education al work at the rate of 1,800 or more a year. In J une, 1929, 1,973 wearers of the orange and blue the college colors re ceived their sheepskins. The physical plant of the Uni versity comprises 75 major buildings, a campus proper of 483 acres, as well as an adjoin ing farm of 1,127 acres and agri cultural experimental farms of 657 acres. (Continued, from first page) ' CHAPEL HILL, N. C FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1930 PLAYTilAIiERS ARE BACKK1T0UR One-Act Plays" Well Received By V Audiences In Southern Cities. The Carolina Playmakers re turned Wednesday night from a successful two-weeks tour of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.; During the. trip they appeared in many of the principal cities and towns throughout these states. , The bill of plays presented in cluded "The No .'Count Boy," a negro comedy by Paul Green; "Job's Kinf oiks" and "Black Water," both by Loretto Carroll Bailey ; and "Magnolia's Man, a mountain comedy by Gertrude Wilson Coffin. The Playmakers appeared be fore several capacity houses. While in Albemarle, where they played under the auspices of Tom Johnson, newspaper n an and former stage manager of the Playmakers, it was neces sary to turn away many at the door. , t .? ' At Greenville, S. C, Frederick Koch and Hubert Heffner, the directors of the organization, attended a party where they spent the evening in the com pany of Sherwood Anderson, the well-known author, who is in Greenville gathering inf orma tion on the mill situation. In Wilmington, N. C., the whole company attended an oyster roast given by the Thalian Asso ciation, the little theatre group of that city, at the estate of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sprunt. As a special feature of the South Carolina Teachers Asso ciation convention at Allendale the Playmakers presented their plays at the consolidated school. In the afternoon an impromptu entertainment was given for the teachers by various members of the company. Professor Koch made a brief address on the edu Continutd on last page) Orange County Poor Fund Up To Thirty-Five -o- The total of the donations re ceived for the "Campus Relief Fund for Orange County Poor" is mounting steadily upward. There were a number of contri butions yesterday amounting to $10.15 and bringing the amount given to the fund to a. total of $33.05. The following were con tributors Thursday: C. W. Con- stantine, Jack Dungan, Dr. S. A. Emery, Ray Farris, Martha W. Fenn, Lewis M. McKee, Peter. B. Ruffin, F. L. Walston, and A. Parrish. The names of all contributing over 40 cents (the price of a meal or a movie) will be pub lished in the Tar Heel. Contri butions are to be mailed to Dr. L. M. Brooks, P. O. Box 747, or the Alumni building, mailed di rectly to the "Campus Relief Fund for Orange County Poor," Daily Tar Heel office, or turned over personally to one of the members of the committee in charge of the fund. The com mittee is composed of Dr. L. M. Brooks, Louis Graves, Harry F. Comer, Ellis Fysal and Robert Hodges. . One example of the extreme cases of poverty encountered by George Lawrence, director of welfare work in Orange county, is offered by a family in a sparse ly settled section of Orange county from which he has re ceived several appeals for aid. This family is composed of a Dance Tickets Left All engineering students who have not secured tickets for the annual Engineers ball to be given this evening, should call for them at the senior rooms of the depart ment in which they are reg istered. Civil engineers should go to room 320 Phil lips hall for their tickets, electricals to room 217, and mechanicals to room 219. Students other than engin eers who intend to bring girls to the dance should get tick ets from engineering students who are not attending, or should see Johnson Alexander Hinshaw Dismisses Lacock Damage Suit A week ago a new Chevrolet owned by G. S. Baldwin, and a new Ford owned by Barney W. Lacock, collided at the intersec tion of Hillsboro street and Rosemary lane, damaging both cars considerably. Wednesday evening Judge C. P. Hinshaw of the Chapel Hill recorder's court heard a crim inal action, instituted by La cock, local shoe repairman, driv er of the Ford, in which Lacock alleged that Baldwin,. by driving in a dangerous and reckless manner contrary to law, had damaged his, Lacock's car to the amount of nearly. $200. Several witnesses summoned by Bald win's attorney tended to bear out the defendant's assertion that Lacock's car, rather than Baldwin's, had been driven at an excessive speed and in a negli gent manner, and, although John R. P. Carawan, who was serving as prosecutor when B. D. Sawyer expressed a wish to be relieved because of friendli ness for the defendant, pointed out the right of way to have been legally Lacock's. Judge Hinshaw dismissed the ... - t - case. Dollars Today widow, her five children, her aged and totally decrepit father, and her feeble-minded sister, all of whom the widow has been attempting to support since last fall by "taking in washing." By working hard and getting all the "washing" to be done for two and three miles around she was able to keep them from starva tion at least, but recently, through the general hard times and unemployment prevalent, the amount of clothes to be washed had fallen off, and she had had very little to do. When Mr. Lawrence discov ered this family he found them all living in a two-room shack of wretched clapboards, prac tically devoid of bedding and furniture. Also, there were the sister's three children to be cared for. The welfare director succeeded in placing these three children and was able to give the family a little money for pro visions. Following is an appeal received from the widow recent ly: . "Dear Sir "I am now writing to you agin asking you to help me some as I am in need of help and we all are sick and have had a bad time but are some better and have not been able to do much washing and my father is here and thire is nuthing the chil dren can do now and I would ' i (Continued n U&t page) DYER SELECTS LIEN TO ENTER CONTEST Professor H. S. Dyer, director of music, has announced the.se- ected group of 30 men who will represent the University in the national intercollegiate glee club contest to be held at Carnegie hall, New York on March 8. The following have been picked to make the trip: W. G. Brown, W. L. Boynton, T. W. Bremer, W. C. Barfield, E. S. Clark, P. S. Carter, J. C. Con nolly, A. H. Fleming, Jr., W. F. Humphries, L. T. Hammond, H. L. Lyon, S. A. Lynch, J. E. Mil ler, C. C. Duffy, E. L. Midgett, C. B. Overman, Egbert Peeler, W. C. Petty, F. M. Prouty, P. R. Patten, M. P. Park, T. C. Reynolds, F. P. Stimpson, E. L. Swain, J. H. Stewart, A. J. Stahr, J. P. Scurlock, J. W. Slaughter, W. T. Whitsett, and Geo. Win ston. 76 HIGH SCHOOLS IN LATIN C0NT1 Over Thousand Students To Take Part In Sixth Annual Examination Today. " Seventy-six high schools, rep resented by 1245 students, will take part in the sixth annual Latin contest for North Carolina high schools which will be held in participating high schools throughout the state, it was an nounced yesterday by E. R. Ran kin, secretary of the contest. The Latin contest is conduct ed under ; the j oint auspices of the department of Latin and the University extension division of the University. The high school whose student submits the best paper in the contest will be awarded a trophy cup by the University extension division. , The standard Latin test, which was prepared by members of the Latin department of the University, has been forwarded to the officials of all participat ing schools. Each school will give the test on Friday and will then send its best three papers to the University. Since the Latin contest was inaugurated five years ago, the award of first place has been won by schools as follows : 1925, Charlotte high school; 1926, Lillington high school; 1927, Wilson high school; 1928, Rox boro high school ; and 1929, Durham high school. The list of high schools which will take part in the Latin con test on Friday follows : Ahoskie, Albemarle, Ashe boro, Asheville, Biltmore, Black Mountain, Bragtown, Burling ton, Canton, Chapel Hill, Char lotte, Clinton, Cliffside, Concord, Dallas, Dunn, Durham, Edenton, Edneyville, Ellerbe, Elizabeth City, Elkin, Fayetteville, Fletch er, Forest City, Fuquay Springs, Gibsonville, Goldsboro, Grace, Graham, Greensboro, ' Hamlet, Harmony, Henderson, Hender sonville, Hertford, Hickory, High Point. - v " Kannapolis, Kinston, Kings Mountain, LaGrange, , Lincoln ton, Long Creek-Grady, Louis- burg, Lowell, Lumberton, Madi son, Marion, Marshall, Mebane, Monroe; Mount Airy, New Bern, Newton, Pinetops, Red Springs, Reidsville, Rich Square, Rock ingham, Rocky Mount, Roxboro, Salisbury, Sanford, Scotland Neck, Selma, Shelby, Southport, Spencer, Statesville, Thomas ville, Valley Spring, Washing ton. Wilkesboro, Wilson and Winston-Salem. NUMBER 117 ENGINEERS' BALL 1TITTP TTirmTTMf AfTI THE CAROLINA INN Novel Lighting Arrangement Planned For Fourth Annual Affair. In spite of the ever increas ing proximity of exams, the so cial 'activities ftf tiiA TTill a-rain , no way affected as is proved by the presence of the engineers' ball tonight and the Grail dance tomorrow night. This is the fourth of the an nual balls given by the com bined personnel of the three en gineering societies. This group is composed of the William Cain branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the local branch of the American Insti tute of Electrical Engineers, and the University branch of Me chanical Engineers. The dance committee is com posed of J. J. Alexander, W. B. White, Dave Nims, E. R. Davis, Chuck Erickson, Charles . West, and J. P. Scurlock. Tickets may be procured by members of the three societies from any mem ber of this committee. Some variety will be had in the location of the dance in that it will be held in the ballroom of the Carolina Inn instead of the customary place, the gym nasium. Novel decorations have been planned for the ballroom, and the erigineers are expecting to give the best dance that has been given by them since their dances were made an annual affair. Dean Braune of the engineer ing school, with Mrs. Braune, will head the list of chaperones. The remaining chaperones will be Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lear, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Hoefer, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Baity and Mr. and Mrs. Trimble. , "Ty" Sawyer and his Caro lina Buccaneers will furnish the music for the engineers. This local orchestra has had quite a bit of publicity lately, and is con sidered to be one of the best in the state. Formal dress is required of those attending. , TT CiimmTTAT7' HPA U. ollfirilUn I !U SOUTIMN PINES Will Appear In Concert In Church Of Wide FeHowship Sunday Night. The University symphony or chestra will appear in concert next Sunday night at Southern Pines as one of the season air tractions of the weekly platform hour given at the Church . of Wide Fellowship. ' The entire group will be . 45 strong. Professor T. Smith Mc Corkle will direct the orchestra, Y" C TTT1 as concertmeister. The party is expecting to leave here Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock in cars, and will be en tertained at dinner before the concert. Mr. McCorkle has arranged the following program : "Slav onic Dance," by Dvorak, "Sur prise Symphony" (Opus No. 6, G Major) by Haydn, "Hear Ye Israel" from "The Elijah" by Mendelssohn (to be sung by Mrs. Trott), "Ballet Music" from the "Bartered Bride" by Smetana," "Funeral March of a Marionette" by Gounod, and "Triumphal March of the Boy ards" by Halvorsen.